[pct-l] Fishing on PCT

[Edward Anderson]

Thanks Reinhold,
 
For the tip on Timberline Lake. I will probably stop and camp there. In the past, decades ago, I have spent a lot of time in the upper Kern watershead. I found great fishing in many of the lakes. Some of the best that I can recall were the Milestone Basin, Lake South America, and un-named lake near Thunder Mountain, where I caught three large Gilbert Rainbow. They were silvery on the outside but when I cleaned them I saw that the meat was brght orange and the guts were purple - the result of what they were eating- fresh-water shrimp. Jereen and I made delicious trout stew, and fried more for breakfast. I had good fishing in some of the creeks too and in the Kern, especially south of the Hot Spring to Rattlesnake Creek. I also fished Golden Trout Creek.
 
MendoRider
 

________________________________
 From: Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net; Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 7:11 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Fishing on PCT
 

[pct-l] Fishing on PCT 
Yes MendoRider,
The Sierra is like a beautiful woman...and once bitten, forever hooked.
Benson Lake with its sandy beach is known in the Sierra as the "Riviera 
of the High Sierra".
Another lake were I have seen hikers catch a lot of fish is "Timberline
Lake" north of Whitney between Guitar Lake and Crabtree Mdw.
Another lake with a big sandy beach that could qualify as the "Riviera 
of the High Sierra" is Muir Lake in the Cottonwood Lakes Basin just east 
of Army Pass south of Whitney and Langley. Every time I think of Langley I remember a guy I met, some years ago, on 
top of Langley.
He was filming the area extensively.......when I asked if he was doing a 
documentary, he replied that he was filming the area in honor of his friend 
who died on Mt. Langley.
His friend died of suffocation in his sleeping bag which was made out of 
none breathable material.
From all indication his friend, on a cold night on top of Langley, zipped 
the non breathable bag all the way to the top restricting the ventilation 
sufficiently to suffocate his friend in his sleep.
That may be why sleeping bags, nowadays, always seem to have a little 
opening for ventilation.
Let this be a warning....if you have an old none breathable bag that zips 
up all the way,....don't do it leave a little opening, so you wake up in 
the morning. JMT Reinhold
.......................................... MendoRider wrote:
The Sierra is one of the most beautiful parts of the PCT. 
I will attach a picture of my dinner at Benson Lake in the Yosemite Wilderness. 
That catch took just five casts.